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Cost Accounting For Dummies

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2013

Cost Accounting For Dummies tracks to a typical cost accounting course and provides in-depth explanations and reviews of the essential concepts you'll encounter in your studies: how to define costs as direct materials, direct labor, fixed overhead, variable overhead, or period costs; how to use allocation methodology to assign costs to products and services; how to evaluate the need for capital expenditures; how to design a budget model that forecast changes in costs based on expected activity levels; and much more.

Open the book and find:

  • Cost accounting terms and their purposes
  • How to use cost-volume-profit analysis
  • The hows and whats of activity-based costing
  • Why budgeting is important
  • The concept of relevance in cost accounting
  • Considerations for process costing
  • How to search for measures of quality